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A Women’s Prison Conceals a Sinister Secret: Staff Sexual Misconduct, Accusers Say Some employees at a Texas federal prison that holds high-profile women including Ghislaine Maxwell said they faced retaliation for reporting abuse.

These women are in prison because they did something wrong, and the government—representing us, you and me—demanded accountability for their wrongdoing. We rarely demand that kind of accountability from the employees we pay to extract it from these women. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/03/27/p...

And bear in mind: Bryan is one of many federal women's prisons where staff sexually abused the women incarcerated there. It happens in MOST prisons where the feds hold women, a Senate investigation found. www.ossoff.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

Some staff accused of sexual abuse against female prisoners at federal lock-up dubbed 'Club Fed' An investigation from NBC News and The Marshall Project found that staff and incarcerated women at Federal Prison Camp Bryan say they were retaliated against after reporting sexual abuse at the facili...

And, for more, watch the streaming segment on @nbcnews.com.
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A Women’s Prison Conceals a Sinister Secret: Staff Sexual Misconduct, Accusers Say Some employees at a Texas federal prison that holds high-profile women including Ghislaine Maxwell said they faced retaliation for reporting abuse.

Read the article—
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New investigation dives into sexual misconduct allegations at federal women's prison For years, inmates at a federal women's prison in Texas have accused staff members of sexual misconduct, but none appear to have been criminally charged.

I appeared on "Here and Now" on @wbur.org today to talk about our new investigation with @nbcnews.com into sexual misconduct at the federal women's prison in Bryan, TX. Listen to the interview— www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

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Closing the Rikers Island 311 ‘Black Hole’ Proposed new law follows reporting by the THE CITY that found jail-related 311 calls are not publicly tracked or clearly resolved.

"One person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement" —Pauli Murray
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An important story to read, and one that's far too common.

A Women’s Prison Conceals a Sinister Secret: Staff Sexual Misconduct, Accusers Say Some employees at a Texas federal prison that holds high-profile women including Ghislaine Maxwell said they faced retaliation for reporting abuse.

Very proud to publish this @themarshallproject.org investigation today with Erik Ortiz and @nbcnews.com. Humbled and grateful to the women who bravely shared their stories with us. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/03/27/p...

A women's prison conceals a sinister secret: Staff sexual misconduct, accusers say Some employees at a Texas federal prison that holds high-profile women including Ghislaine Maxwell said they faced retaliation for reporting abuse.

Eight women who were incarcerated at a federal prison in Texas tell The Marshall Project and NBC News that staff members groped them or pressured them into unwanted sex acts in deserted corners where there were no security cameras or witnesses.

I appeared on @kjzz.org yesterday to talk about recent developments in the decade-long lawsuit against the Arizona prison system and the "plainly grossly inadequate" health care they provide. www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...

ICE Lied About Its Authority to Make Courthouse Arrests - The American Prospect Agents never had permission to hunt immigrants at court appointments, says the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Some additional context for those who want more info
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Jaw-dropping admission by DOJ to court.

DOJ admits to having repeatedly made "material mistaken" representations to judge - ICE never had authority (under 2025 Guidance) to conduct arrests at immigration courthouses!

DOJ admits court "relied on...prior misrepresentations."

DOJ blames ICE (page 2)

"I apologize for the delay." The...12 year delay.

The Trans Woman Who Sued the Federal Prisons (and Won) Settles Her Remaining Cases Days before Trump’s inauguration, the Bureau of Prisons agreed to pay Grace Pinson $95,000 to drop more than a dozen pending lawsuits.

"I am continuing to give them hell and I will never stop for as long as I live," Grace wrote me recently. "I plan to get a license to practice law when I am free." Given her track record, I don't doubt she will. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/01/24/t...

Is Trump’s Gender Care Ban for Trans Prisoners Unconstitutional? A federal judge considers if the president’s executive order barring hormone treatment in the Bureau of Prisons is cruel and unusual punishment.

Last month she was supposed to be released to a halfway house after 20 years in federal prison, but they yanked her release date away from her just days before she was set to leave. She says this is in retaliation for her participation in this case: www.themarshallproject.org/2025/05/22/t...

The Ballad of Grace Pinson A trans woman’s legal battle reveals the failures of a landmark prison rape law.

Grace is the woman we wrote about last year, who is a skilled and effective jailhouse lawyer who's been fighting for some basic care and recognition as a transgender woman in federal prison for over a decade. www.themarshallproject.org/2024/10/09/t...

Breaking: Trans inmate's lawyers claim "egregious retaliation" in violation of court order Trans woman involved in a lawsuit challenging anti-trans policies says federal prison official told her on Feb. 22: “I don’t give a fuck what that judge says, I do what I want.”

“I don’t give a fuck what that judge says, I do what I want.” In a declaration in the ongoing case challenging the federal prison system's ban on gender-affirming care, Grace Pinson says that she's been targeted for speaking up. www.lawdork.com/p/trans-inma...

Arizona prison health care takeover comes after 14-year lawsuit In an 83-page order, Judge Roslyn Silver detailed complaints that go back 14 years about inadequate physical and mental health care at the 10 prison complexes across the state. That included a history...

The judge overseeing a federal lawsuit brought by prisoners in Arizona said Thursday she would appoint a receiver to take over the deeply dysfunctional healthcare system in the state prisons. This is a huge deal. It’s only been done a handful of times.
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Federal Prisons Bar Gender-Affirming Care for Trans People ‘People will die,’ an advocate warns, as standard treatments for gender dysphoria are replaced with therapy and antidepressants after Trump’s order.

BREAKING
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Democracy dies in darkness

4 paragraphs of a declaration. They describe that when the FBI took Natanson's devices, she was logged into Proton, Google, draft stories, and Slack.

Another paragraph of the declaration, describing that she had Signal messages with 1,200 people on her phone.

This declaration from WaPo journalist Hannah Natanson describing what the FBI took is utterly devastating.

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Amid ‘Catastrophic’ Shortage, Psychologists Flee Federal Prisons in Droves With fewer and fewer employees to run the prisons, psychologists were repeatedly forced to act as guards.

"At some point it becomes unethical to continue to participate in that..Can we provide this group of humans the care they’re entitled to? The answer is no. One person cannot ethically do that.” My latest for @themarshallproject.org www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/26/m...

Uncovering Securus’ profits Securus exemplifies the industry's obscene penchant for squeezing profits by fleecing their customers and shorting their business partners.

Securus's customer is clearly not the people using their system, pouring more than $100M into the company's coffers each year. That's why they have no real interest in "servicing" us. It's DOCs, who don't give one single shit whether you get your $11 back or not. www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2015/06...

One of those recordings cheerfully informed me there are no refunds for stamps used to send a message that is rejected by the prison (a circumstance totally out of your control obvs) or when your loved one is released from prison.

Today's eg: I tried to buy $8 worth of "stamps," for which they charged a $3 fee. Then I got an error message that said the card charged successfully but the "stamps" didn't load. Call customer service. I called customer service, which was a labyrinthine series of choose-your-own canned recordings.

It is continually shocking to me how utterly awful is customer service at Securus, the prison email system (aka the only way this captive audience can readily communicate with the outside world).

OTOH, these people were actually held accountable